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> It will almost certainly be EU-exclusive

Yes, but that will change once Americans see what EU citizens can do with the same devices they use. It may take a few years.

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They can already see that on Android. Let's be honest, no one cares.

I don’t think that’s the same thing. Here people can see they don’t have to give up or change anything in order to get this functionality.

Even if they saw android as having this, that’s a high switching cost.

I’m not convinced of that inevitability. I’ve had Republican Americans argue with me until they were blue in the face about how great the free market is for internet service here in America, and absolutely refuse to entertain the idea that other places do it differently and it works out way better for the consumer. That’s just one example. I guarantee you that once this goes through in the EU there will be a huge pile of news in the US about how the Communists are forcing Europeans to install malware on their iPhones, and that it’s really great how Apple has the Freedom to prevent that from happening here.

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